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B flat nine suspended four chord

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About the B flat nine suspended four chord

B flat nine suspended four is used in G Major, where every note it holds is a scale tone. Think of it as a B suspended fourth chord with a flat ninth.

Its notes are B, E, F, and C. The intervals are a perfect fourth, a perfect fifth, and a minor ninth.

Positions

No stored guitar shape for this voicing yet. Build it from B, E, F♯, C.

Notes and intervals

1BRoot
2EPerfect 4th
3F sharpPerfect 5th
4CMinor 9th

Shapes

Chromatic

CC♯D♭DD♯E♭EFF♯G♭GG♯A♭AA♯B♭B

Circle of Fifths

CGDAEBF♯G♭C♯D♭G♯A♭D♯E♭A♯B♭F

Other B chords

Simpler triads

Suspended

Sixths and sevenths

Extensions

Altered

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B(♭9)sus4 chord on guitar shown as colored note dots
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